Pakistan’s dangerous Anti-American game

Last week a Pakistani court sentenced Shakil Afridi—the doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) track Osama bin Laden last year—to 33 years in prison after he was accused of treason or possible ties with militants. In response, the US Congress docked a symbolic $33 million from Pakistan’s annual aid budget, or $1 million for every year of the doctor’s sentence. US anger is understandable. In the year since Osama was discovered in the garrison town of Abbottabad...

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